CURRICULUM VITAE
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PERSONAL: Name:
Greco, Marilena Born:
Nationality:
Italian Address:
via Magenta 34, 87063 Cariati Marina (CS), Italy E-mail:
marilena.greco@ntnu.no, marilena.greco@cnr.it |
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Position: Professor
at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
(2010-).
Senior
Researcher (part-time) at CNR-INM (ex CNR-INSEAN), Institute for Marine
Engineering, Italy (2011-)
Languages:
Fluent in English. Advanced knowledge of French. Basic
knowledge of Norwegian.
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Education
September 2001: Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Marine Hydrodynamics, Norwegian University of Trondheim Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet (NTNU), with the thesis: A two-dimensional Study of Green-Water Loading (MTA-Rapport 2001-146); main supervisor Prof. Odd M. Faltinsen.
Courses taken during the
Ph.D.: seven exams dealing with theoretical, numerical and experimental
analyses involving free-surface flows and wave-body interactions, both in the
Naval and Offshore fields.
February 1997: Master degree in Aeronautical Engineering, University of Rome La
Sapienza with mark 110/110 with
honour, defending the thesis: Hydrodynamic loads and wave generation during the
motion of marine vehicles; main supervisor Prof. Giorgio Graziani. The thesis
was made at the
July 1991: Diploma at the scientific high school Liceo Scientifico Statale S. Patrizi of Cariati Marina (CS) with the mark 60/60.
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Employment History
January 2013-: Key scientist in Marine Hydrodynamics at the Centre of Excellence NTNU AMOS - Centre for Autonomous Marine Operations and Systems, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.
January 2010-: Professor at the Department of Marine Technology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. The position has been funded for the first five years by Det Norske Veritas. Among other duties, the professorship involves research and teaching on ocean waves, wave-induced loads and motions and wave-structure interactions for offshore structures, standard ships and high-speed vessels.
January 2011-: Senior researcher at
CNR-INSEAN, Marine Technology Institute, Rome, Italy. The position is
part-time.
January 2009-December 2010: Senior researcher at INSEAN, The Italian Ship Model Basin, Rome, Italy. The position implied the responsibility of advising other researcher’s activities and work at management level and was part-time from January 2010.
February 2008-January 2010: Adjunct professor (professor II) at the University NTNU of Trondheim (judged suitable after being examined for her technical work and pedagogical skills). The position is in Marine Technology with specialty on Computational Marine Hydrodynamics and is supported by the Norwegian Centre of Excellence on Ships and Ocean Structures (CeSOS) in Trondheim. The Centre proposed this position to M. Greco and she had to fulfil the NTNU requirements which involve to be examined by a technical committee, assessing the expertise through CV and publications, and by a pedagogical committee, assessing the teaching skills through a trial lecture.
November 1999-December 2008: Permanent researcher at INSEAN, Dept. of Seakeeping and Manoeuvring.
April 1997-August 1999: Temporary contract at INSEAN as expert in numerical methods.
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Career Profile
- Teaching and lecturer activities:
· Academic year 2002-2003: Nine-hour numerical seminar on the subject titled “Sea waves and their interaction with structures” for Ph.D. students of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Genoa, Italy.
· Academic years 2004-2009: Three-hour numerical seminars at the Dept. of Marine Technology of NTNU University of Trondheim as a part of the Dr.ing. course “Hydrodynamic Aspects of Marine Structures I” on “Domain-Decomposition strategy: a BEM coupled with a Navier-Stokes plus Level-Set solver” and on “An introduction to CFD methods for marine applications”.
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March 2010: Invited lecturer on “Domain-Decomposition Strategies
for Marine Applications” at Det Norske Veritas of Oslo and at the Dept. of Mathematics of the
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2010 – Present: Responsible and lecturer of the NTNU master course
TMR4215 “Sea Loads” (https://www.ntnu.edu/studies/courses/TMR4215).
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2011 – Present: contributing lecturer, and responsible since 2017,
of the NTNU master course TMR4217 “Hydrodynamics of high-speed marine vehicles”
(https://www.ntnu.edu/studies/courses/TMR4217).
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2014 – Present: Responsible and co-lecturer of the NTNU PhD course
MR8300 “Hydrodynamic Aspects of Marine Structures I” (https://www.ntnu.edu/studies/courses/MR8300).
- Supervisor and scientific advisor activities:
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As Professor at NTNU:
Ongoing PhD
students:
1.
Daniele Borri. Topic:
Hydrodynamics of oil spills from oil tankers. (supervisor)
2.
Mohd Atif Siddiqui.
Topic: Behaviour of a damaged ship in waves. (supervisor)
3.
Shaojun Ma. Topic: Fish
hydrodynamics. (supervisor)
4.
Hui-Li Xu. Topic:
Fish-hydrodynamic study finalized to the bio-cyber-hydrodynamics. (supervisor)
5.
Alireza Ahani. Topic:
Local structural response due to wave slamming. (supervisor)
Graduated
PhD students:
1.
Finn-Christian Hanssen. 2019.Topic:
Nonlinear wave loads on marine structures in extreme sea states. (supervisor)
2.
Isar Ghamari. 2019.
Topic: Hydrodynamics of parametric roll resonance and capsizing of fishing
vessels. (co-supervisor)
3.
Yugao Shen. 2018. Topic:
Operational Limits for Floating-Collar Fish Farms in Waves and Current, without
and with Well-Boat Presence. (supervisor)
4.
Zhaolong Yu. 2017. Topic:
Hydrodynamic and structural aspects in ship collisions. (co-supervisor)
Ongoing
post-docs:
1.
Yugao Shen. Topic: Limits
for fish farm operations - Numerical study towards a moored closed rigid fish
farm in waves.
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As INSEAN researcher: Co-tutor for the master theses and research
activities of three Italian students of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
of the University of Rome La Sapienza.
Co-tutor of four French students of the Engineering Universities ENSIETA
(Brest) and Ecole Centrale de Nantes (Nantes), she was responsible for the
stage at INSEAN of two of them. Responsible for the Post-Doctorate research of
Dr. David Le Touzé from the Ecole Centrale de Nantes within a Marie Curie
Fellowship. This activity was performed at INSEAN and dealt with the
development of a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) solver for the analysis
of three-dimensional free-surface flow problems.
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As visiting researcher at CeSOS and then as adjunct professor at
CeSOS/NTNU: Tutor for Ph.D students working on the development of numerical
hydrodynamic tools for ships and offshore structures.
· As professor at NTNU (updated until beginning of 2018): Main supervisor of 19 master students and co-supervisor of 2 for their project and master theses. Main supervisor of 6 and co-supervisor of 2 PhD studies, one graduated and one presently ongoing. Supervisor of a three-month internship of a French student from ENSTA ParisTech.
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Co-organizer, with Professor O.M. Faltinsen, of the Workshop “CFD Solvers for Unsteady
Marine Applications: Capabilities and Challenges” held in December 2007 at
Trondheim under the support of CeSOS.
The objective was to collect people among
the worldwide most outstanding researchers involved in the development of CFD
solvers and their application within the marine field. The emphasis was on
violent unsteady free surface/interface flow and blunt-body flow separation
problems. The Workshop was aimed to offer to students and young researchers (1)
the unique opportunity to learn the features of the major CFD methods from the
researchers who either developed or contributed strongly to their improvement
and establishment and (2) the chance to discuss the state-of-the-art CFD
applications in the marine field, with emphasis on both the capabilities and
limitations experienced. M. Greco contributed also as invited lecturer and
provided a summary presentation of the Workshop within the final panel session.
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Assistant for Professor O.M. Faltinsen for the quality control of
his last two books “hydrodynamics of high-speed marine vehicles” (2005) and
“Sloshing” (2009).
- Examiner activities:
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As INSEAN/INM researcher: Member of 3 committees arranged at
INSEAN in connection with internal and national competitions. The internal
competition evaluated the improvement of professional level of certain
categories of INSEAN employees. The national competitions were for a temporary
and for a permanent contract. In both cases she cooperated to the definition
the criteria of evaluation and to the examination of Curriculum Vitae, training
and work experience of the candidates. In the temporary-contract case, she
performed the oral exam based on the candidate previous research activity. In
the permanent-contract case, she participated to the preparation of written and
oral exams. They involved, respectively, the preparation of multiple-answer
tests and topics for a technical essay, and sets of questions to discuss. She
also was involved in the correction of the written part and in the oral
examination. Finally she contributed to the establishment of the final ranking.
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Administrator and member
in 14 Ph.D. committees at the Dept. of Marine Technology of NTNU.
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First opponent in a Ph.D.
committee at the Dept. of Mathematics, University of Oslo (2014).
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As adjunct professor and as professor at NTNU: Assistant for
Professor O.M. Faltinsen in examining students on the subject “Hydrodynamic Aspects of Marine Structures 1”; examiner for the
TMR4215 course and co-examiner for the course TMR4217 courses at NTNU.
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Referee for leading international journals in fluid dynamics,
marine hydrodynamics and other fields: Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Journal of
Fluid and Structures, Journal of Ship Research, Journal of Engineering
Mathematics, Ocean Engineering, Journal of Computational Physics, Journal of
Marine Science and Technology, International Journal of Offshore and Polar
Engineering, Journal of Applied Mathematics, Engineering and Computational
Mechanics, Naval Engineers Journal, Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine
Energy, Water, European Journal of Mechanics / B Fluids, Applied Ocean
Research, and others.
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Since 2017, Associate Editor for Journal of Fluids and Structures.
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In 2017, reviewer for a PhD thesis from Indian Institute of
Technology Madras and for a PhD thesis from Italian University of Rome
“Sapienza”.
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In 2018, reviewer for a PhD thesis from the Australian Swinburne
University of Technology.
- Management and planning of research activities:
· As INSEAN researcher: Responsible for the research of employees hired with temporary contract at INSEAN to perform theoretical and numerical studies on problems with free-surface flows of practical interest in the Naval and Coastal Engineering. This activity involved the revision of the work done, the cooperation to the scientific investigations and the check of the resulting technical reports.
· As INSEAN researcher: Project manager of the project Submarine Motions in Confined Waters Project, EUCLID 10.17. This project involved four European nations: France, Italy, Norway and UK. The research activity concerned both numerical and experimental investigations. M. Greco contributed to the definition of the research content and aims. Her activity consisted in managing the INSEAN employees involved in the project, in controlling the work of the INSEAN subcontractor (CETENA), in writing the progress reports, in contributing to the technical reports and in relating the work done to the costumers (the Navies of the four Nations involved and the Western European Union, substituted by the European Defence Agency at the end of the Project). She has also been involved in the definition of the second phase of such project, both from the technical and financial points of view.
· As professor at NTNU: In 2011, M. Greco was chosen for her knowledge in Marine Hydrodynamics to cooperate with other five key people in creating a new Centre of Excellence in Trondheim. AMOS, the "Centre for Autonomous Marine Operations and Systems", has been accepted in November 2012 and will be launched in 2013 and will last at least five years. The Centre is aimed to establish a world-leading research centre on autonomous marine operations and systems: A lively scientific heart where fundamental knowledge is created through multidisciplinary theoretical, numerical and experimental research within the knowledge fields of hydrodynamics, structural mechanics, guidance, navigation and control. Cutting-edge inter-disciplinary research will provide the needed bridge to make high levels of autonomy a reality for ships and ocean structures, unmanned vehicles and marine operations, to meet the challenges related to greener and safer maritime transport, monitoring and surveillance of the coast and oceans, offshore renewable energy, and oil and gas exploration and production in deeper and Arctic waters. Both the national and the international collaborations are very strong. AMOS will educate 60 doctoral candidates and provide postdoctoral training for 15 researchers and has a perspective of 10-year budget of approximately 570 Million NOK.
- Research interests and research activities:
Topics of investigation are related to free-surface flow problems relevant for ship hydrodynamics, offshore structures and coastal engineering, with focusing on seakeeping, resistance and manoeuvring. Research tools are primarily theoretical and numerical, complemented by experimental studies and related analyses. Major research is on seakeeping, investigated both globally (motions and global loads on the vehicle) and locally (local loads, occurrence of local phenomena, etc.). The studies considered different operational conditions of the vessel (at rest, with forward motion, free to oscillate when interacting with incoming wave systems), both in mild and in severe sea. In the framework of the global studies, solution algorithms based on the potential flow theory have been developed using either fully nonlinear, weakly nonlinear or linear conditions for the free and solid boundaries. In the framework of local studies, the occurrence in severe sea conditions of some problems relevant both for design and operations of ships and offshore platforms has been investigated. In particular: water shipping on vessels deck, slamming and water entry, water exit, hydroelastic fluid-structure interaction. Numerically, several domain-decomposition strategies were also developed, where two different methods are used to solve a problem in a coupled fashion.
M. Greco was also involved in physical investigations of other problems:
sloshing inside on-board tanks, interaction of breaking waves with beaches,
breaking of dams. She also performed investigations in connection with wave
resistance and with manoeuvring. In the latter case, M. Greco cooperated within the
study of free-surface (with and without incoming waves) effects on the
manoeuvring of vehicles below or above the air-water interface.
Present fields of interests are Marine Hydrodynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Nonlinear Free-Surface and Multiphase Flows, Fluid-Structure Interactions, Hydroelasticity. In connection with the Centre of Excellence NTNU AMOS, the research focus is on the following topics: safety of vehicles in extreme sea conditions, aquaculture, renewable energy sources in marine environment, and other related topics.